The reason for this is pretty sdimple. Your
genial quizmaster (me) made a typo in the playoff
brackets and had the #1 team from each division playing
twice and the #2 team not playing at all. Oops. I
caught the error as I was announcing the brackets and
switched one of the #1's to #2 on the fly, out loud -- the
wrong one. D'oh! The good news is, the difference
between the 2nd and 3rd place trophies was only about 2"
in height.